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Friday, February 15, 2013

Can I Get a Witness?

Okay, so the Marvin Gaye song "Can I Get a Witness" really doesn't have much to do with my post today, I just love Marvin Gaye. His music makes me want to jump up and dance.And anything that makes a 28-week pregnant lady want to jump up and dance is a good thing. (Check him out on YouTube. A little Marvin is always a good way to start the day.)

But the title of this post really should be, "Somebody Help Me!" For that, I guess I'd need to call on Steve Winwood and the Spencer Davis Group.

But help, I need. More like good juju. Good mojo. Send it my way, man. I am in need.Why? Life is conspiring against me this month, and I need to write. I need to write the rough draft of my critical thesis for my MFA in Writing advisor, and I need to work on Novel 2. And my belly--oh, who am I kidding? My entire self--is growing bigger with Baby 2, and I'm tired, and my 3 year-old needs attention, my house needs readying for said Baby 2, and my dog and my husband are neglected.Help! I need somebody. Help! (Okay, add the Beatles to the morning playlist.)

But what I'll take are good thoughts. If you've got them, please send them my way. You'll have my eternal thanks.In other news ...Just a few reminders:1.) Today is the last day Keowee Valley is available at a promotional rate at the Barnes and Noble NOOK Store: only $1.99!2.) Don't forget to vote for Keowee Valley for the SIBA Book Award. You'll be rewarded in the afterlife. Somehow, I'm sure.3.) If you live in the Raleigh, NC area or will be there on Friday, Feb. 22, I hope you'll come hear me speak and have lunch with the Wonderland Book Club, starting at 10 a.m. Register here.That's all, folks. Happy weekend!

About Me

I'm the author of KEOWEE VALLEY, an historical adventure set in the Revolutionary-era Carolinas and in the Cherokee country, published by Bell Bridge Books. I'm also a mercurial, 30-something writer who loves to travel, read literature AND entertainment, and is deathly afraid of convention.

QUOTES FOR THE ROAD...

"If you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning."

~ Catherine Aird

"I think there is a fatality in it--I never go to the place I set out for."

~ Lawrence Stern, from A Sentimental Journey"Love easily confuses us because it is always in flux between illusion and substance, between memory and wish, between contentment and need. Perhaps there are times when the contradictions of love are so inter-mingled that the only way to see the truth of love is to pit it against the incredible reality of lust.”